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From Quora Digest Ukraine News(Euroasia)  ·  Follow Posted by  Pavlo Usov   2y Russian air force suffers worst losses since start of war. The Russian air force  suffered its worst day of losses in 14 months on Saturday after two fighter jets and two helicopters crashed in mysterious circumstances. In the absence of an official explanation for the crashes, aviation analysts and Russian military bloggers speculated that they had either been brought down by friendly fire or Ukrainian air defences or shot out of the sky in an aviation ambush laid by Ukraine. Some commentators even suggested the  warplanes could have crashed as a result of sabotage .Moscow-based  Kommersant  newspaper reported that all four aircraft had been part of a coordinated attack on Ukraine. “The fighters were supposed to deliver a missile and bomb attack on targets in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine, and the helicopters were to back them up, picking up the Sukhoi crews if ...
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Russian ‘Village of Military Valor’ Waits for Its Reward

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Sedanka has only 250 residents, but dozens of its men left for the front. It is wondering whether recognition that the government promised will ever arrive. Horses are among the animals that roam freely and drink from puddles of sewage water that back up on the dirt streets of the remote Russian village of Sedanka, in the Far East. Credit... Svetlana Zakharova By  Neil MacFarquhar  and  Milana Mazaeva The New York Times , Feb. 16, 2026 Updated  11:36 a.m. E T Amid the majestic volcanoes and enchanted emerald forests of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s remote Far East, near Alaska, both residents and visitors describe the Indigenous hamlet of Sedanka as remarkably squalid. Its housing stock, leftover from Soviet times, is gradually collapsing, with leaky roofs and odorous patches of mold resembling mushrooms sprouting from interior walls. Most dwellings lack running water, while blocked sewage lines feed puddles on dirt streets. Bears and other animals rummage thro...
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